Aug. 17.
'The Miners' Delegate Conference today discussed for three and a hall hours the action to be taken in view of the districts' rejection of the Bishops' peace proposals. Conference is expected to end this evening.
Nothing was disclosed as regards the nature of the discussions this morning, except the fact that a resolution was passed emphatically protesting against the "untrue communication sent by Mr, Baldwin to the American Press, timed to reached "America when the Miners'
Federation Delegation landed, with the obvious object of preventing American subscriptions to the fund for the relief of the wives and children of the British miners, This is further evidence that the Government has decided to assist the mine owners to defeat the miners by starvation."
Mr, Baldwin's communication' denied that the mining population were starving, and declared that in many areas tie children were better 4ed than before the stoppage.
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